title: Institutes of Quality experience uneven volume.
abstract: The Prudential Insurance Company's plan to shuttle patients needing high-tech care to designated Institutes of Quality was announced with great fanfare and has been under way for more than a year now. Yet the prestige of the designation has been greater than any increases in patient volume for all but a few hospitals involved in the program. Still, according to Prudential, the program has saved the Newark-based company close to $1 million.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Koska
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D003625:Data Collection; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008096:Lithotripsy; D008511:Medicine / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013038:Specialization; D013675:Technology, High-Cost / Q000592:standards*; D014180:Transplantation; D014481:United States